Feed-pan fob pouitry



G. l". LEWIS.

FEED PLU POB PULTBY.

PINGUINI IILID LUG. 1I. 190i.

GEORGE F. LEWIS, 0F TEXAS.

FEED-PAN FOB POULTBY.

Specification ot Letters Patent.

Application flied August 12, 1908. Serial No. 518,662.

Patented Feb. 1, 1910.

' and useful Im rovements in Feed-Pans for Poultry, of which the following is a specification.

As is Well known owners of poultry have diiiiculty in treatment of diseases to which the feetof chickens and other fowls are subject. Usually it is necessary to chase the fowl and after it is caught a suitable remedy is applied to the feet.

The object of the present inventlon 1s to provide a novel form of feedingi receptacle for poultry and which embo es a pan adapted to receive a foot bath to facilitate thet-reatment of diseases of the feet and without expel-iene' the diiliculty attached to the present met od of catching the fowl as before mentioned.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following detail description and the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a feeding rece tacle embodying the essential features of le present invention, and Fi 2 is a transverse sectional view showing t e invention in detail.

Throughout the following description and on the several gures of the drawings similar parts are referred to by like reference charaeters.

The numeral 1 denotes a shallow pan adapted to receive a liquid and at the central portion of which is provided a hollow supporting standard 2 upon which is carried a .ood tra 3. The tray 3 is adapted to contain suita le food for the poultry and said tray is of considerably less diameter than that of the pan 1, and at the same time being elevatedwlth respect to said pan and in a position convenient to the fowls after the latter have stepped into the pan 1. The liquid bath which 1s adapted to be contained by the pan 1 may have any suitable medicinal pro erties for treatment of the feet of the fow kerosene or coal oil being often used with water for such treatment. The food receptacle or tray 3 is, of course, entirely separate from the pan 1, said tray having an extension 3a projecting from its bottom and recelved in the hollow standard 2 at the center of the pan 1. Suitable ring catches -1 are attached to the part 2 anadapted to e ge :n recesses 5 in op ite sides of the part 3a to secure the foodxisray to the standard 2. A plurality of the recesses 5 mafy be provided on the extension 4 so that the eed tray may be held 1n adjusted positions to permit of the use of the device by fowls of dijerent slzes. It is absolutely necessary that the fowls ste? into the bath in the pan 1 in order to eed from the tra 3.

Having thus described e preferred embodiment of the invention, what is claimed as new 1s:

In a poultry feeding receptacle, the combination of a shallow pan to receive a. foot bath, a food receptacle of lesser diameter than the pan, a standard at the center of the pan, an extension proecting from the bottom of the food receptac e, and catches carried by the standard' for detachably and adjustably slpporting the food receptacle in an elevate position with respect to the pan.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signatu: in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE F. LEWIS.

Witnesses:

GEO. W'. DAULIN, R. L. MOODY. 

